Word: brutes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Capitalist and a Communist can usually agree on one point-the meaning of the word "revolution."-To both it conjures up a picture of physical violence, bloody streets, armed rioters, machine-gun rule. When a Socialist talks of "revolution," however, he does not mean a civil upheaval by brute force but rather a radical political change by orderly political methods. He thinks of seizing the brain, not the body, of an electorate...
...Banker John P. Morgan, camera-shy son of a camera-shy father. They got several fleeting shots, all with Mr. Morgan looking extremely annoyed. When the Daily News's man exploded his flash in Mr. Morgan's face, the latter raised his cane and cried: "You brute...
...advent of the forward pass, the success of a team depended entirely upon brute force. The elimination of the very dangerous plays has made the game safer for the participant and more exciting and spectacular for the onlookers. This new are of the sport has resulted in its gaining the greatest popularity to come to any one sporting event...
...boards. . . . There is a circle about one foot round they have to serve in. . . . My players must never grandstand a play, never make the kill when a soft accurate shot will suffice. Energy must be saved. No false steps, no excess movements. No jerks, no wild swinging and no brute strength. Just the cool calculating mind working the system, analytical, severe, fast, cruel and deadly...
...week Sir Patrick was in fine fettle. After witnesses had testified to Mrs. Barney's love for Stephen, and she had explained that the revolver went off while he was trying to keep her from shooting herself, Sir Patrick cried, "Her life was tragic, tied to an American brute whom she could not divorce! . . . Even one of us some day may have a daughter for whom we may have to make excuses. ... It is conclusive evidence of her innocence that her fingerprints were not found on the revolver. There is no evidence here upon which you could be asked...